diff --git a/files/ffuncs.c b/files/ffuncs.c
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/ffuncs.c
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/*
+ *		various functions
+ */
+
+#include  <stdio.h>
+#include  <stdlib.h>
+#include  <unistd.h>
+#include  <string.h>
+#include  <ctype.h>
+
+#include  "ffuncs.h"
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+extern int			verbosity;
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+void dump(unsigned char *ptr)
+{
+int		foo;
+
+for (foo=0; foo<24; foo++) 	fprintf(stderr, "%02x ", ptr[foo]);
+fputs("\n", stderr);
+for (foo=0; foo<24; foo++) 	fprintf(stderr, "%c  ",
+					isgraph(ptr[foo])?ptr[foo]:' ');
+fputs("\n", stderr);
+
+}
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+char *rtrim(char *src)
+{
+int		foo = strlen(src)-1;
+
+for (foo; src[foo]==' '|| src[foo]=='\t'; foo--) {
+	src[foo] = '\0';
+	}
+
+return src;
+}
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+char *ltrim(char *src)
+{
+int		foo, bar;
+char		*tmp;
+
+tmp = alloca(strlen(src));
+
+for (foo=0; src[foo]==' ' || src[foo]=='\t'; foo++);
+
+bar = 0;
+while (src[foo]!='\0') {
+	tmp[bar]=src[foo];
+	foo++;
+	bar++;
+	}
+
+strcpy(src,tmp);
+
+return src;
+}
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
diff --git a/files/ffuncs.h b/files/ffuncs.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06dbcee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/ffuncs.h
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+/*
+ *		various functions
+ */
+
+void dump(unsigned char *ptr);
+
+char *rtrim(char *src);
+char *ltrim(char *src);
+
+/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */